Guidelines

We have few guidelines, but they are important.

To apply, please submit a brief bio, a cover letter, and three samples of your work that you feel best represent your scope and interests as a creator. We are looking for eager and critical artists and writers from various fields of study who are producing art and writing that responds to the current world around them.

In your cover letter, please tell us in 500 words or less the following:

1. What are the driving forces behind your work / art and why would you like to join us for this residency? Tell us what your particular aesthetic and voice will bring to the weekend.

2. What are recent social issues, political decisions, or cultural mishaps that sparked meaningful conversation and inspired you to create art, write stories, or otherwise communicate your thoughts to the world?

3. Tell us a little about what you hope to get out of this residency.

4. Have you taken part in a workshop before? If so, what were the circumstances (MFA program, writing group, etc.); if not, what is your understanding, hesitation, or hope of how a workshop setting functions?

Note: New this year, accepted residents will be sharing their intended piece for Issue 8 with their cohort and the TSW editors ahead of the weekend, to be workshopped during the residency.

Residency Resources

Dates & Info:

Application fees: $20 (Please feel free to email us should this fee prevent you from submitting because of financial difficulties or otherwise.)

Location: Rhinebeck, New York (Please note: selected residents must be able to attend all three days of the residency; if your schedule changes, please notify us immediately so we can offer the space to someone who is able to fully participate.)

**All expenses paid. You will only be responsible for your own transportation.**

Testimony

“It’s hard to accept, looking back, how short the time was, and how much we made of it.”— T.B. Grennan

“Rhinebeck is magic, and my residency with Seventh Wave was a conduit. I didn’t think it was possible for a handful of days to pull me out of a creative slump that had lasted more than a handful of years, but I was so wrong.”

— Lauren Friel

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The Seventh Wave Magazine, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) arts and literary nonprofit interested in conversations, both on and offline, about the most pressing social issues of our times. Get in touch with us if you are an artist, a thinker, an organization, or just anyone curious. info@seventhwavemag.com